Gongol.com Archives: June 2020
June 15, 2020
"When I wear a mask, I protect you. And when you wear a mask, you protect me."
Don't wait for the vaccine; we can break this thing now. It can be done.
If schools remain closed or semi-closed, broadband Internet will be essential
Imagine taking a time machine back to 1995 and explaining that in 25 years, broadband Internet access will become a major factor in public health. Because it is now.
Iowans used absentee voting en masse this primary
79.4% voted by absentee ballot. In the middle of a pandemic, you know what that equates to? A lot of Iowans taking a pragmatic step to not only protect their own health, but to protect the well-being of poll workers. More absentee voting means less exposure at the polls. Nice work, team.
Don't ask us to imagine a world without immigrants
A country should never be ashamed to import all the willing talent it can find.
High-speed rail in places like Italy really is fantastic stuff -- it's just great. But Italy has 9.5 times the population density of a place like Iowa. There's little way to make the economics work at the same scale here as there without the help of some stunning breakthroughs.
